Joseph Benavidez
UFC flyweight, and former bantamweight title challenger, Demetrious Johnson is certainly one of the quickest fighters competing at 125-lbs and is certainly something that Joseph Benavidez (16-2) has game planned for when the two meet next weekend.
Benavidez, who earned his way into the UFC flyweight final by stopping Yasuhiro Urushitani via TKO last March, feels he has the tools to deal with ‘Mighty Mouse’s’ speed telling host Mauro Ranallo, on Friday’s podcast of “The MMA Show with Mauro Ranallo“, that “I can negate his speed with all my other advantages.”
“I’m a practical guy. Demetrious is faster than me, and I’m not fooling myself by saying I’m faster than him. Just knowing he’s the faster fighter, I need to go in and look at other things. I don’t think his speed advantage is so drastic that it can overcome all the advantages I have. It’s a tiny little speed advantage that he has. It’s not like I’m a slow guy — I’m right there, he’s not going to make me look slow. I think I can negate his speed with all my other advantages and I think I’m better in the majority of places. He has a speed advantage — like, way to go.”
The two battle this Saturday for the inaugural UFC flyweight strap in the co-main event of UFC 152: Jones vs. Belfort, which is set for September 22, 2012 at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Also featured on the podcast is boxing analyst Scott Christ.